Thursday, March 28, 2013

Facebook Share Annotations on YouTube Videos, How To




How to add a FaceBook share button in your video annotations?

So, you may have noticed that some videos have annotations for facebook share buttons in the annotations like this.
If you have annotations on and are using an annotations compatible application or browser, you can click on the button in the middle of this video to share on facebook.
Go ahead and give it a try...
Cool, huh?
So this is how it's done.
I will take you through the process.
First, this process requires you have your own domain name and hosted website.
You must also have the ability to upload HTML files to your website.
Note, some hosting companies do not allow you to upload custom files and restrict you to their own website creator.
First, go to your video manager
Then click on Channel Settings
After that, select associated website
Enter your verified website fully qualified domain name.
If your website needs to be verified, please check out the other videos on that topic.
You should see the Success green light.
Next, download and unzip this html file:
http://newgt.com/facebookshare.zip
I will also put the link in the video description.
Once you unzip, the contents are a single file named facebookshare dot html
Next, upload this HTML file to your website.
For those of you concerned of the content, this is the code it contains.
You may want to replace ThreeDigitIQ on line 17 with your own channel name, but you do not have to.
Then open up the video page of the video you want to annotate.
Copy the ?v= parameter to include the video ID
Next, click on the "Annotations" button under your video.
Then Add a Spotlight Annotation
Check the Link and Associated Website
Enter the full URL, including HTTP:// to your website and the facebookshare.html file
after the dot HTML, paste in your question mark v= video ID
It should look like this.
Click save and publish
You should see the Published confirmation.
Go to your video and check it out!
If this works for you, you can thank me by sharing this video on your facebook wall.
Go ahead and give it a try.
Thanks and have fun out there.

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